So I’ve been working on designing and 3d printing more unique novelty throws and stumbled across this…
A spiked hubstack that protrudes outside of the cup of the yoyo. Sounds simple?
A yoyo like this can play like a hubstack yoyo, spin on your finger, spin on your hand, spin on a table, and you can grab one of the spikes and twist it around (even upside down)!
So what I’m wondering is this - why has this never been explored before? Or has it? The closest thing I could find to this is the Magic Yoyo lm1 but I may have missed something.
I see. I’ll have to test if there are actually any cool tricks with the string involved that can be done with it. I believe it could be mass-produced though if it offered enough.
It has been done before, released in 2002 by Difeyo the “Spiked-Fly” based on the “Dif-Fly”. One of the yoyos I regret selling back in the day. It was a very fun yoyo, as you mentioned can catch string and stuff.
This seems very interesting will be cool to have the chance to catch the string and do string tricks like a sort of spin top, so curious to see how you evolve it
Indeed! One of the benefits of 3d printing is that I can make prototypes quickly without really any cost. I doubt that I’ll ever mass produce this though, but it would be cool for some company to do so, as it’s not really in circulation now.
DocPop and One Drop tried to create a side effect like this, but I haven’t heard anything about it in almost a year, so I imagine it didn’t work out for one reason or another.
Not really. The Mk1 Unicorn from what I know is specifically designed to optimize hand grinds. This is similar in that it can do hand grinds (though not as well) but it is made up of hubstacks which allows for more widespread types of play (like you can grab onto the stacks and set it on a table to spin).
Yeah I was gonna say Dif-e-yo spike fly as well thats the first throw I saw with something like that. Also One Drop had stunt peg side effects at one point as well I believe.
Yea! since it has spikes you could do a matador pull start and go into a finger spin or hand grind or even just throw it horizontally and land it on something!
